Namibia - Germany

On August 14 2004 in Okakarara, Namibia, at the memorial ceremony of the centennial of the resistance of the Herero genocide by the German colonial troops, the German Federal Minister for Economic Cooperation and Development Heidemarie Wieczorek-Zeul said that: [...] "A century ago, the oppressors - blinded by colonialist fervour - became agents of violence, discrimination, racism and annihilation in the name of Germany." The atrocities committed in that time would be called today genocide - and today a general Von Trotha would have been pursued and condemned. We Germans we accept the historical and moral responsibility and culpability of the Germans of the time. And so, with the words of the prayer of God that we share, I ask you to forgive our sins." [... ]. Despite the admission of the Herero genocide, are therefore lacked some official apologies.

On September 19 2006 the deputy Kuaima Riruako, supreme leader of Herero people, moves a motion that is unanimously approved by Parliament on October 26 2006 by which it acknowledges [...] that "What happened to our people during the years 1904-1908 as a result of the order of extermination of general Von Trotha was a brutal act of genocide ratified by the German Government of the time, that our people has title to require the payment of reparations by the German Government, that the Namibian government should be a party concerned in any discussion with the German Government on the issue of reparations and that some talks should begin between the German and Namibian governments and the representatives of the parties involved, in order to try to friendly resolve the question and so strengthen and consolidate the excellent relations existing between the two countries [... ].

On September 30 2011 at the university clinic of Charity in Berlin the ceremony of returning of the remains of nine Herero and eleven Nama was held in the presence of a large delegation of Namibians and of the German vice minister for foreign affairs Cornelia Pieper who, despite she said that "Germany acknowledges and accepts the heavy moral and historical responsibility toward Namibia", has not expressed any official apology and left the ceremony shortly before the Namibian minister of culture Kazenambo Kazenambo and some representatives of Herero and Nama took the floor. At the end of the ceremony Judith Strohm of AfricAvenir International has done what Herero and Nama wanted the German government to do, by apologising for the genocide on behalf of the civil society.On October 5 2011, in the presence of the Namibian President Hifikepunye Pohamba and of thousands of people, the remains were welcomed in Namibia with a ceremony in Heroes' Acre near Windhoek.

The Congress Restorative Justice after Genocide was held in Berlin, capital of Germany, from 14 to 16 October 2016 with the participation of about fifty Ovaherero and Nama delegates. The congress ended with the approval of the Berlin Resolution 2016, declaring critical debate about the genocide a global task and a subject for society as a whole, besides the demands for an official recognition of the genocides, a sincere apology by the German Parliament and Government and negotiations on reparations with the Ovaherero and Nama representatives from Namibia and their diaspora.